Independent Cryptic #12099

2025-07-19

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Across

1a

Golden pants fit thief (8)

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5a

Began to write in dictionary (6)

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10a

Cored fruit nutty regularly picked in quantity (7)

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11a

School member that may attack harp in a rage (7)

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12a

Immature creature runs through hot rocks (5)

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14a

People unsettling fringes of Dundee (Scottish football team) (9)

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15a

Striking possibly left-wing manoeuvre (9)

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18a

Creepy-crawly abandoning cold place inside (5)

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19a

Emirate to provide name for large language model? (5)

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20a

Bad manners only seen in pub and church (9)

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22a

Sean thus deployed traps Black and Tans (9)

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24a

Make over yard area starting late (5)

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26a

Take advantage of some candles I lit up on the counter (7)

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27a

Second newspaper to exclude supplement (7)

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29a

Hallmark of small pen say announced (6)

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30a

When orbit's completed approximately deviating by a third (8)

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Down

1d

More vulnerable artist found in (7)

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2d

Smoother advert promoting one (5)

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3d

Something charged in Helsinki Oslo and Tallinn ultimately (3)

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4d

Flirted desperately finally having digits to ring (5)

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6d

Originally missed one-nil replay broadcast throughout the year (11)

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7d

Nobody in navy working with a child (9)

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8d

Absolutely broken television? (7)

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9d

Workers raised repurchase agreement with other workers? (8)

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13d

Air conditioning with constant temperature around capital city is initially easy to adjust (11)

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16d

Exposing man beneath oddly dyed hairstyle (9)

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17d

Flag book skipping over Isle of Man location (8)

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19d

Sporting equipment's debate (7)

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21d

Old tree likely to get hollowed out (7)

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23d

South American almost battered rice dish (5)

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25d

One coming out with me to rear plant (5)

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28d

Mark's long-running EastEnders character (3)

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